The Mentor Harbor Yacht Club building was eventually erected on west side of the Mentor Lagoons. However, this blueprint shows an early proposal by the developer, the Mentor Harbor Company to have the club built to the east of lagoon entrance,...

Three photographs were taken and placed together to create a panoramic view showing the original dredging of Mentor Harbor by The Mentor Harbor Company. A 1938 newspaper article reported that the dredging cost 2 million dollars and that dredges...

The American Construction Co. hired by the Mentor Harbor Company created this plan to dredge the west end of the Mentor Marsh and construct the Mentor Lagoons. A comparison with aerial photographs of the Mentor Lagoons shows that some of the...

Johnson Steel coal docks, circa 1895. It shows the first inclined ore bridges in the background
A dredge is in the foreground. Next is the steamship Constitution. In the center is a whaleback steamship and a whaleback barge.

Lorain Harbor 1898, 3 years after the start of Johnson Steel Co. Taken at the mouth of the river looking north at the lake. Note the steamships of that era had masts as well. The background shows the original light(s) and break-wall.